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(To wit.)}
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the parish
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of
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Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third
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, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
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Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before
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one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
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a Boy unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
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James French
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Griffin Boardman
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William Taylor
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Peter Simpson
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good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
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sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
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said Boy unknown came to his
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Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Boy unknown on the Thirteenth Day
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of July in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The
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River Thames
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of LondonThat the said Boy unknown had not any marks of Violence
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appearing about him and how or by what Means he became drowned and suffocated
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no Evidence doth appear to the said Jurors
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IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said
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the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
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their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
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above written.
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Thos. Phillips
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Wm Elliott
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